UB Staff

College course on ‘soft skills’ spreads in eastern Montana

For Miles Community College President Ron Slinger, adding a one-credit class on soft skills to Montana’s already extensive patchwork of career-based K-12 opportunities is...

Harvard inaugurates Claudine Gay, the university’s first Black president

Harvard University inaugurated Claudine Gay as its 30th president − the first person of color and second woman to lead the Ivy League institution. Since 2018, Gay served as...

California college employee who killed retired administrator is sentenced to life

A California college employee who fatally stabbed his boss on campus in 2019 was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole, prosecutors said...

US art college network abruptly closes its remaining campuses, shocking students and teachers

Around 1,700 students have been left in the lurch after the Art Institutes, a network of for-profit art and design colleges, announced that its eight remaining...

Charlie Kirk calls for Arizona lawmakers to defund state universities at ASU event

Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk and conservative radio host Dennis Prager were met with protest, and the talk fed political fires about campus...

Feds fund $45M Rice-led research that could slash US cancer deaths by 50%

The Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) has awarded $45 million to rapidly develop sense-and-respond implant technology that could slash U.S. cancer-related deaths...

St. Norbert to lay off employees

The college said 29 positions were immediately cut, while 12 more employees would lose their jobs after the semester, the end of the academic...

Baker College turnaround plagued by federal scrutiny, plunging revenue

Among the people streaming onto Baker College campuses early this fall were some new faces: federal investigators conducting an unusual review of the marketing...

Utah high school seniors are missing out on millions of dollars in free college aid

Only 35.5% of Utah high school seniors had completed the FAFSA as of June — the second-lowest total in the nation ahead of only...

Half of Hispanic students considered leaving college last year

Remaining enrolled in college was just as tough for U.S. students in 2022 as it was in 2021, but a recent Lumina Foundation-Gallup study shows Hispanic...

‘The untouchables’: How Columbia and N.Y.U. benefit from huge tax breaks

Columbia’s property tax savings, which are a fraction of its $14.3 billion endowment, far exceed the tax breaks granted to many high-profile commercial developments,...

The big problems with college and K-12 school rankings

The U.S. News & World Report’s 2024 college rankings came out last week, as my colleague Nick Anderson notes, with a somewhat revamped methodology that...

Robberies at Loyola, DePaul prompt safety concerns among college students across Chicago

From the University of Illinois Chicago to DePaul University and Loyola University, Chicago has recently seen an uptick in armed robberies on or near...

Richard Englert returning as Temple University president following loss of JoAnne Epps

A former Temple University president is stepping back into the role as the school weathers a sudden loss. The university's Board of Trustees appointed Richard...

Boston College professor creates program to help Black teens with Autism improve mental health

Boston College Professor Ed-Dee Williams wanted to know what the depression rates for Black autistic youth looked like, "given there's communication deficits, they experience...